At the stroke of midnight we usher out the old year and welcome in the new.
Question is, how will mother nature be ringing it in weather wise here in the Cariboo?
Environment Canada Meteorologist Ken Dosanjh said there’s not a whole lot of activity expected.
“We kind of have unsettled conditions around the area. Most likely the further North you go, more towards Quesnel, that’s where you can anticipate more of a chance of flurries. Most of the activity will reside around the Cariboo Mountains but any sort of precipitation expected will be fairly minimal.”
Dosanjh noted that areas like Williams Lake and 100 Mile House for the first day of the new year really shouldn’t see a whole lot of anything.
“Conditions will be relatively near normal in terms of temperatures. They’ll remain steady at around minus 2 tomorrow (January 1), mainly cloudy conditions, with Southeast winds around 20 kph but other than there is no major system coming into play for at least the first day of the year.”
As we come into the weekend Dosanjh said a weather system will start to move in and hit the South Coast so that’s when can anticipate some periods of snow, a few centimetres at most, nothing too exceptional at this time.
“No signal for strong winds either, just kind of a typical winter pattern until we move on to early next week where, maybe Tuesday we could see a few more centimetres of snowfall but other than that there’s no major system expected to move through the Central Interior. Temperatures will be bang on near normal for the next few days. Looking at highs in the minus single digits, minus 1 to minus 3.”
As we get into Sunday and early next week, Dosanjh added things will cool down a few degrees where overnight lows will be around minus 8 to minus 10 but other than that conditions are generally normal for this time of year.
“On average area around the Central Interior see highs of around minus 4 and lows of around minus 12 so no real temperature fluctuations are expected at this time. We’ve seen a couple of events occur over the past month or so, it’s been fairly active over the province so starting 2026 off in the right way with a typical winter expected.”
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